Aztec philosophy : understanding a world in motion / James Maffie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maffie, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aztec philosophy.

Aztecs--Folklore.

Aztecs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Teotl""; ""1.1: Teotl""; ""1.2: Supporting Scholarship""; ""1.3: The Cosmos as Teotl�s Artistic-Shamanic Self-Transformation""; ""1.4: Some Implications of and Objections against Several Aspects of This Interpretation of Aztec Metaphysics""; ""1.5: Conclusion""; ""2: Pantheism""; ""2.1: Pantheism""; ""2.2: The Sacred""; ""2.3: Neltiliztli, Self-Presentation, and Nonhierarchical Well-Ordering""; ""2.4: Ixiptla and Teixiptla""; ""2.5: Animism""; ""2.6: Objections and Replies""; ""2.7: Conclusion""

""3: Agonistic Inamic Unity""""3.1: Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.2: Agonistic Inamic Unity as A Pattern in the Weaving of the Cosmos""; ""3.3: Examining Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.4: Artistic Presentations of Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.5: Abstract Inamic Pa irs""; ""3.6: Balance and Imbalance, and Center and Periphery Are Not Inamic Pairs""; ""3.7: Ometeotl""; ""3.8: Conclusion""; ""4: Teotl as Olin""; ""4.1: Olin""; ""4.2: Linguistic Evidence""; ""4.3: Literary Evidence""; ""4.4: Graphic Evidence""; ""4.5: Conclusion""; ""5: Teotl as Malinalli""; ""5.1: Linguistic Evidence""

""5.2: Literary Evidence""""5.3: Graphic Evidence""; ""5.4: Conclusion""; ""6: Teotl as Nepantla""; ""6.1: Linguistic Evidence""; ""6.2: Literary Evidence""; ""6.3: Graphic Evidence""; ""6.4: Conclusion""; ""7: Teotl as Time-Place""; ""7.1: Introductory Remarks on Time and Place""; ""7.2: The Tonalpohualli""; ""7.3: The Xihuitl or Xiuhpohualli""; ""7.4: Aztec Cosmogony""; ""7.5: Aztec Time-Place: A Monistic and Processive Interpretation""; ""7.6: Conclusion""; ""8: Weaving the Cosmos""; ""8.1: The Dynamics of the Aztec Cosmos""; ""8.2: Backstrap Weaving""

""8.3: Weaving the Fifth Sun-Earth Age""""8.4: The First Four Sun-Earth Ages as Nepantla-Process""; ""8.5: The Fifth Age as Nepantla-Generated Woven House""; ""8.6: The Vertical Folding of the Cosmos and of the Fifth Age""; ""8.7: Cosmos and Reality as Nepantla-Process""; ""8.8: Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781457184284

1457184281

9781607322238

1607322234

OCLC:

873807175